Your patience for the body work is amazing. Looks awesome so far.
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Bullhead Rebuild ... Ford F350 Mods ... Manta Ray Revival ... Custom Super Hornet Build ... TL-01 Crawler ... CC-01 Pick-up ... CR-01 With Hop ups ... Project Unknown ... Clod crew cab ... Other: Custom Display cases ... Limited Slip Diff(LSD) ... |
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I think this car went to the right owner, you could see what should have been done to it but most people wouldnt have been able through lack of knowledge and ability. You have transformed it using a lot of patience and your awesome bodywork skills. I like this a lot and look forward to the finished article.
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Primed & painted the wheels, body also got primed, and didn't have anything I thought I could improve on, so got it's first coat of white ... and a nasty run - I hate spraying white
Did a little more with the headlamps - popped in some LEDs & machine screws, held in with milliput, which also forms a "reflector" ... didn't really get the angle I was hoping for, but never mind ... once the epoxy starts to harden I'll scrape out a little round the edge to make a "shelf" for some lexan to sit on later on ... |
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Well that went more easily that I thought ... spookily, a 5p coin was exactly the right size for the apertures, so I just squished one in there & popped it out again.
Should also make getting the lexan the right size a lot easier too |
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Last edit: by Jonny Retro.
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They're 3mm & white ... I've got the specs somewhere ... or at least a link to them ... I think Power ... I hooked 3 up in series to a 9v battery & they worked & didn't go off like flashbulbs - but at the moment, the wiring is just a couple of wires coming out the back of each headlamp shell You've spotted the drawback in my cunning plan there ... there's no way to replace them if they fail ... but I'm kind of looking at this as a proof of concept more than anything - if after all this fiddling about they look rubbish, then there's no point trying again ... if they look good though, it worth having a crack at making them replaceable ... I can't say I'm too worried, I can't remember when I've ever had an LED fail, apart from getting the voltage wrong, or backwards ... or managing to rip the wires off |
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why connect up 3? what resistors are you using? i connrcted 2 up to a 9v battery and without a resistor they blew instantly |
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